Some product management interview homework assignments I’ve come across — I have been asked quite a few times for examples for product manager take home assignment / homework assignment questions, so I decided to put together a list of some that I have given candidates or been given as a candidate. Some of these have been slightly anonymized. RevenueCat: benchmarking RevenueCat is…

A deceptively simple productivity and management tool — Since I joined RevenueCat a year and a half ago, I have without fail sent a weekly email summary to my manager and my team, and I am asking all product managers in my team to do the same. It’s not something I invented, and it’s deceptively simple. However, this…

Some things I learned last year — It’s been a while since I wrote a year-in-review post — five years, after my first full year as a product manager at Yammer. 2022 was not my first full year as Head of Product, but it was momentous for me in my role at RevenueCat. I went from managing…

How to detect the AI’s confident but shallow answers — I’ve interviewed a lot of product manager candidates, and one of the regular interview formats (which is pretty standard in a PM interview loop) is the product sense interview. Inspired by the recent launch of ChatGPT and the following tweet by Jackie Bavaro, I decided to interview ChatGPT for a…

Speed up by increasing focus — Product managers are continuously inundated with requests and ideas from all sides. Even when being very careful with prioritization, it can happen that the team ends up with too many projects being worked on in parallel — a large amount of work in progress. High work in progress (WIP) is…

How to thrive as a PM when working from anywhere — I am currently Head of Product at RevenueCat. Our team of roughly 60 people is globally distributed, fully remote and async-first. This is my first fully remote position, and in this article, I want to share a few lessons I have learned to be effective in this context. Before diving…

Thinking, Fast and Slow — Human brains are pretty amazing. We take in millions of pieces of information every second, process them, make connections with what we already know, and make decisions based on that. The way we manage that is by taking lots of shortcuts — we could not possibly consciously consider all of…

Don’t get hit by Goodhart’s Law — Before the advent of SaaS and ubiquitous internet access, software companies had very little information about how end users actually used their products. They had to painstakingly conduct research trying to understand their customers’ behavior, and due to the long lead times to ship software in physical form, could not…

Evaluating “hard” product skills — I’ve been involved in interview panels for a lot of PMs, and have set up hiring processes for product managers in two different startups. One of the critical components of the interview loop should be what I call the “Product Sense” interview, in which the candidate’s “hard” product management skills…